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Date. July 20, 1810 – April 2, 1825. Location. Northern South America, Andean South America, the Caribbean, Central America, Florida. Result. Colombian and Allied victory. Creation of the Republic of Colombia. Creation of the republics of Peru and Bolivia. End of the Spanish political presence in South America.
Gliceria Marella Villavicencio was born on May 13, 1852, in Taal, Batangas. She was the third of seven children and the daughter of Vicente Marella and Gertrudis Legaspi. They were a wealthy family. At the age of 12 she attended the Santa Catalina College in Intramuros.
On the 4th of July, 1946, an independent Philippines was born. It became the successor to the U.S. under the treaties of 1930. On July 15, 1946, the United Kingdom annexed the State of North Borneo and, in the view of the United Kingdom, became the sovereign power with respect to what had been the State of North Borneo. [14]
e. The history of the Philippines from 1898 to 1946 is known as the American colonial period, and began with the outbreak of the Spanish–American War in April 1898, when the Philippines was still a colony of the Spanish East Indies, and concluded when the United States formally recognized the independence of the Republic of the Philippines on ...
—United States President Lyndon B. Johnson quoted in The New York Times February 6, 1964 "He was the very incarnation of the Filipino desire for liberty and freedom, and his country owes him much. He was a lifelong friend of mine and his death saddens me." —General Douglas MacArthur, quoted in The New York Times February 6, 1964 Aguinaldo was rushed to Veterans Memorial Medical Center ...
Battle of Balara. Andrés Bonifacio y de Castro (Tagalog: [anˈdɾes (anˈdɾez-) bonɪˈfaʃo], Spanish: [anˈdɾes βoniˈfaθjo]; [2] November 30, 1863 – May 10, 1897) was a Filipino revolutionary leader. He is often called "The Father of the Philippine Revolution ", and considered a national hero of the Philippines. [3][4][5]
The history of Colombia includes its settlement by indigenous peoples and the establishment of agrarian societies, notably the Muisca Confederation, Quimbaya Civilization, and Tairona Chiefdoms. The Spanish arrived in 1499 and initiated a period of annexation and colonization, ultimately creating the Viceroyalty of New Granada, with its capital ...
In 1819 Bolívar led a combined New Granadan and Venezuelan Army in a campaign to liberate New Granada which had been under Spanish control since 1816. Bolívar marched his army through the flooded plains from Venezuela and entered the Casanare Province with his army in June of 1819, combining his forces with those of Francisco de Paula ...